The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-16

OF the Father and OF the Son and OF the
noiy uhost;" and others are more i'm.
pressed when the penitent comes up out OF
ehe rivcr, his garments dripping with the
waters OF a baptism which signifies the
washing away OF sin. Let either have his
own way. One man likes no poise in
prayer not word nor whisper. An.
otner man just rs good, prefers by gestic-
ulatlon and exclamation 10 express his
devotional aspirations. One is Just as
good as the other. EVERY man fully per-
suaded in his own mind"
george Whitfield was going over Qua
ker rather roughly for some of his relig-
ious sentiments, and the Quaker said;
george, l am as thou art; / am for
bringing all men to the hope of the Gospel !;
therefore, IL thou will not quarrel with
me about my broad brim l will not quar-
rel with thee about thy black gown.
george, give me thy hand"
l.. In tracing out the religion OF sectari-
an'sm, or bigotry, l find that great deal
Oh IL comes from wrong education in the
home circle. There are parents who do
not think 1t wrong to caricature and jeer
the peculiar forms Of religion in the
world, and denounce other sects and
| other denominations. II is very often
the case that that kind of educa-
ton acts just opposite to what we ex-
pccted, and the children grow up, and,
after awhile, go and see for themselves,
ana hnding that the people are good there,
ana they love God and keep His command
ments, by natural reaction they go there
and Join those very churches. l could
mention the names of prominent ministers
OF the gospel who spent their whole lives
bombarding other denominations, and
who lived TO see their children preach the
gospel in those very denominations. But
1t is often the case that bigotry starts in a
household, and that the subject Of it never
RECEIVERS. There are tens OF thousands of
bigots ten years old
L think sectarianism and bigotry also
arise from too great prominence of any
one denomination in a community. All
the other denominations are wrong, and
his denomination is right because his de.
nomination is the most wealthy or the
most popular, or the most influential, and
1t Is our" church, and "our" religious or
ganization, and 'our" choir, and ''our'
minister, and the man losses his
head and wants other denominations to
know their places. 1t is q great deal bet
ter in any community when the great de-
nominations of Christians are about equal
in power, marching side by side for the
worlds conquest. Mere outside prosper
ity, mere worldly power is no evidence
that the church is acceptable TO God. Bet
ter barn with Christ in the manger than
a cathedral with magnificent harmonies
rolling through the long-drawn isle, and
an angel from Heaven in the pulpit, il
there be no Christ in the chancel, and no
Christ in the robes. Bigotry is often the
child Of ignorance.
You seldom find man with large intel |
lect who is bigot. 1t is tho man who |
thinks he knows great deal, but does |
not. That man is almost always bigot. |
Tho whole tendency Of education and civ |
ilization is to bring a man out of that kind |
OF state of mind and heart.
There was in the far East great obelsk, |
and one side Of the obclisk was white, an
other side of the obelisk was green, an- |
other side Of the obelisk was blue, and |
went and looked ut the obelisk,
but they did not walk around It,: One |
man looked at one side, another
at another side, and they came home
each one looking at only one side; and they
happened to meet, the story says, and they
got into a rank quarrel about tho color of
that obelisk. One man said it was white,
another man said it was green, another
man said it was blue, and when they were
in the very heat Of the controversy more
intelligent traveller came and said: Gen
tlemen, have seen that obelislf, and you
are all right and you are all wrong, Why
didn't you walk all around the obcliskW
Look out for the man who sees only one
side OF religious truth. Look out for the
man who never walks around about these
great theories of God aud eternity and the
lead He will be bigot incvtably-the
nan who only sees one side. There is no
nan more to be pitied than he who has in
ais head just one idea-no more, no less.
More light, less sectarianism. There is
nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as
,unshne-God's sunshine.
9. SO l have set before you what con-
'ider 10 be the causes of bigotry. have
Jet before you the origin of this great evil.
What Re some Of the baleful effcctsi First
# all, it cripples investigation. You are
wrong and l am right, and that ends It,
No taste for exploration, no spirit of in
'estigation. From the glorious realm OF
5od's truth, over which an archangcl
night fly from eternity to eternity and not
each the limit, the man shuts himself out
md dies, blind mole under corn shock
I stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Christians Is
o present all the truths Of the
bible, 1t seems to me that God has
'iven to each denomination an es-
ecisl mission to give particular en- ,
hasis to some one doctrine; and so the
Churches must present the
Of God, and the Arminian